Pavlodar, 3 November. Pavlodar governor Asain Baikhanov visited the teleradiology situation centre of the regional cancer centre, where a single PACS/RIS system with artificial intelligence operates, the governor’s press service reported.
The system, the statement says, covers 22 medical organisations and is integrated with the Damumed and Nadezhda platforms. It links 96 pieces of diagnostic equipment: X-ray machines, fluorographs, mammographs, CT and MRI scanners and angiographs. The digital archive has accumulated more than 60,000 studies. Doctors can analyse images remotely, exchange results and use artificial intelligence to flag possible pathologies.
For the system to work, 53 radiologist workstations, 49 diagnostic monitors and 62 computers for X-ray technicians, 14 digitisers for analogue equipment and two digital detectors for mammographs were installed; 148 specialists were trained. The cancer centre is 98% equipped with modern equipment, including a 64-slice CT scanner, a 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner and a Varian VitalBeam linear accelerator. Baikhanov said such projects help diagnose disease faster and let residents of remote districts get colleagues’ advice regardless of distance.
What it means: The region has linked 22 organisations and 96 machines into one system and added artificial intelligence; the statement has no data on the algorithm’s accuracy, the number of pathologies found or diagnosis times.
Who benefits: Residents of remote districts and doctors who need colleagues’ advice without travelling; medical organisations connected to the single archive. The cost of the project is not stated.
Background: The same day the Ministry of Health reported a digital system for monitoring vaccine storage: digitalising health care is named in both reports.
